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Text-to-image arena · Anonymous head-to-head votes · Updated August 11, 2026

Best images
GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,370Score
Best open model
Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)Ideogram1,214Score
Best from China
Seedream 5.0 ProByteDance1,279Score
Top three by Score
1GPT Image 2 (high)OpenAI1,370
2Reve 2.1Reve1,324
Top three open models
1HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604HiDream · #32 overall1,200
2Ideogram 4.0 Fast (Quality)Fal · #33 overall1,199
3FLUX.2 [dev] TurboFal · #34 overall1,199
This week's changes
Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-PlusSpeech · #2New
Qwen3.8 MaxIntelligence · #5New
grok-4.6-highCoding · #5New
Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh)Intelligence · #7New
gemini-3.7-flash-highCoding · #8New
RankChangeModelScore95% interval
1—GPT Image 2 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,370±11
2—Reve 2.1ClosedReve1,324±10
3▲ 3Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)ClosedGoogle1,321±9
4▼ 1MAI-Image-2.5ClosedMicrosoft AI1,314±10
5—GPT Image 1.5 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,311±10
6▲ 2Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)ClosedGoogle1,300±10
7▼ 3Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)ClosedGoogle1,289±10
8▼ 1Reve 2.0ClosedReve1,257±11
9▲ 1MAI-Image-2.5-FlashClosedMicrosoft AI1,229±11
10▲ 4Krea 2 Medium TurboClosedKrea1,227±11
11▲ 1Krea 2 LargeClosedKrea1,223±8
12▲ 4Ideogram 4.0ClosedIdeogram · 1 more variant1,215±10
13▼ 2Krea 2 MediumClosedKrea1,210±8
14▼ 1MAI-Image-2ClosedMicrosoft AI1,209±8
15▲ 5GPT Image 1 (high)ClosedOpenAI1,206±11
16▲ 1Imagen 4 UltraClosedGoogle1,190±8
17▲ 2Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)ClosedGoogle1,189±11
18—MAI-Image-2-EfficientClosedMicrosoft AI1,182±8
19▲ 4Imagen 3 (v002)ClosedGoogle1,126±8
20▲ 1Lucid Origin UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,126±7
21▼ 6Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image-4StepOpenNVIDIA1,121±17
22▲ 2Imagen 4 StandardClosedGoogle1,121±9
23▲ 2Reve Image (Halfmoon)ClosedReve1,118±9
24▼ 2Lucid Origin FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,111±8
25▲ 1GPT Image 1 Mini (medium)ClosedOpenAI1,110±8
26▲ 1Ideogram 3.0ClosedIdeogram1,098±8
27▲ 1Imagen 4 FastClosedGoogle1,097±9
28▲ 2Midjourney v7 AlphaClosedMidjourney1,092±9
29—Ideogram v2ClosedIdeogram1,086±8
30▲ 1Midjourney v6ClosedMidjourney1,080±8
31▲ 1Ideogram v2 TurboClosedIdeogram1,076±8
32▲ 2MAI Image 1ClosedMicrosoft AI1,064±9
33—Midjourney v6.1ClosedMidjourney1,058±8
34▲ 1Ideogram v1ClosedIdeogram1,048±8
35▲ 1Phoenix 1.0 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,042±9
36▲ 2Ideogram v2a TurboClosedIdeogram1,029±9
37—Ideogram v2aClosedIdeogram1,029±9
38▲ 1Phoenix 0.9 UltraClosedLeonardo.Ai1,028±8
39▲ 1Krea 1ClosedKrea1,014±9
40▲ 1Phoenix 1.0 FastClosedLeonardo.Ai1,009±9
41▲ 1Runway Gen-4 ImageClosedRunway993±9
42▲ 1DALLE 3 HDClosedOpenAI970±8
43▲ 1DALLE 3ClosedOpenAI968±8
44▲ 1Sana Sprint 1.6BOpenNVIDIA940±10
45▲ 1Amazon Titan G1 v2 (Standard)ClosedAmazon924±9
46▲ 1Amazon Titan G1 (Standard)ClosedAmazon916±9
47▲ 1DALLE 2ClosedOpenAI747±11

Intelligence over time

Each maker's best model at the time on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, by the month it was released.

Gained most · Anthropic +57.2Highest now · Anthropic 64.6Gap between highest and lowest 18.1 ptsTime range Nov 2025 – Nov 2026
64.6Anthropic60.0Google56.9OpenAI50.1Meta46.5Kimi

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Open or closed follows the license Arena gives; prices and Artificial Analysis intelligence show only where model names match, otherwise “—”.